Finally got my bloody voucher! Pick up the new thing tomorrow.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 May 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
omg fun
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 17 May 2014 13:14 (ten years ago) link
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bik/4510094436.html
fits great. perfectly turned out.
i currently have zero bikes. should really buy a city bike and a proper road bike. trying to decide if this could be my road bike, or if it would end up being a sweet sweet toy.
it's a few pounds heavier than my late specialized. and the ride isn't quite as mellow as carbon.
but!
― ugh (lukas), Sunday, 15 June 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
i mean, i can always sell it ...
― ugh (lukas), Sunday, 15 June 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
got a few reasons, but i'd vote no. otoh, u can always sell it.
― 52 hertz so good (Hunt3r), Sunday, 15 June 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
Huh, what are the reasons?
― ugh (lukas), Sunday, 15 June 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
I mean I can imagine a few but maybe you have reasons I hasn't thought of
― ugh (lukas), Sunday, 15 June 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
had not
i didn't scrutinize too closely, but that all looked like 1991 era 8 spd d/a- could you get the replacement chains and cassettes you want? iirc 8 spd dura ace has a weird cassette body, too? with expense, you could swap over to 9, as the cassette width should be the same. might need to get a newer derailler though? how committed are you to riding d/t shifters? if you're thinking of racing, that shifting is really not great, esp for crits. those decals are over the clearcoat, whoever the owner is did a good job keeping them from getting scraped up and trashed.
i guess i just sorta think it's not a very practical ride? i'm a mostly boring practical person. it is beautiful, noteworthy, and i assume it rides very nicely
xp - looks like it's deleted tho.
― 52 hertz so good (Hunt3r), Monday, 16 June 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah cuz I gave him a downpayment.
This will probably end up being unwise, but I saved the text and photos from the listing and I'll try to keep it pristine.
Ok back to being excited about it!
― ugh (lukas), Monday, 16 June 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
man, i am sure you will enjoy the hell out of it. to me that bike is sort of the high point of the classic columbus era (before some of the crazy shaped stuff like ms and el-os, and well before tig welding). slx was like sl but iirc had extra butting around the bottom bracket to make it stiffer while still being light. that bottom bracket looked beautiful, and the internal routing of the brake cable is pretty sick.
― 52 hertz so good (Hunt3r), Monday, 16 June 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, yeah, looking forward to seeing what a good example of the form is like to really ride.
― ugh (lukas), Monday, 16 June 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Won an unbuilt 2014 Felt AR frame for cheap ($800) on ebay...realized it's electronic only. There goes my plan to keep it cheap.
― sous les paves, Sunday, 27 September 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
https://paddle8.com/auction/robin-williams/
coolest bike on that list would be a good poll.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
yellow zipp
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Funny I was thinkin that too, so fast. Kestrel with no SP another 90s tri icon.
As an iro owner, was quite surprised there.
I think if it was a bike for my riding, it would be the Merlin,tho that's a late-ish one.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 14 October 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
oooh man so many
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
just spent £30 on a park tools cable cutter and it's made just about a ham-fisted shitty job as the random blunt tools i tried previously.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
man, that's terrible. i wonder what changed, i've had one for cables, and one for housing, each for like 20+ years, they have always worked perfectly? The housing cutter is so strong I have misused it to cut spokes (not recommended for rim health or long-term cutter health. also can be dangerous to eye health if you have no rim strip).
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
Do you have to file the housing after cutting? It's so tough I find it hard to imagine you wouldn't but I had high hopes, maybe too high?
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
I mean it looks so mashed I think I'll be filing for hours.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
spiral brake housing, or shifter housing? Yeah the soft spiral stuff tends to mash down a bit if I don't manipulate the cutting process a bit (I sort of bend the housing back, away from the core as I cut. But mine never mashes or messes up that tough shifter stuff. Boom, right through.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
Brake housing. I've got plenty to play with so I'll give that a go, ta. I see the park tools website does say some filing will be necessary.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link